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This page gives guidelines for the clean-up of 16,104 articles about living people started by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (SvG) and debated at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive941#User:Fram. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion. The outcome of the follow-up discussion at User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up was less drastic:

  1. All the articles would be moved to draft space (this was completed on 25 January 2017)
  2. Over the next 90 days articles would be reviewed, problem articles deleted or turned into redirects, and other articles corrected and promoted back to main space
  3. At the end of the 90 day period (e.g. 24 April 2017) all remaining drafts would be deleted.

Comments on these guidelines should be made at User talk:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines.

Volunteers

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Please add your userid to the list below if you plan to help with the clean-up, so you can be notified of project events.

Outline of process

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Various lists of subsets of the BLPs are given below.

  • Select one of the lists of subjects that interest you,
  • Pick an entry and review it
  • Either flag it for deletion, turn it into a redirect, or correct it and move it to main space.
  • Pick another entry.

Types of problem

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Any biography of a living person should reflect what reliable sources say about the subject, with these sources cited, and with no original research. Most of the articles are reasonably accurate, although SvG sometimes added original research, or information he "knew" was accurate, that was not supported by any source. There were errors in copying information such as birth dates. In some cases it seems that SvG created an article from a source that would not be considered reliable, then added citations to other "sources" to support the article, often without checking these "sources". Sometimes the "source" did not even mention the subject. In a few cases SvG confused one person with a completely different person, giving totally misleading content.

  • Unfounded libel: The article asserts that the subject engaged in unacceptable behavior such as doping or fraudulent claims about age or nationality, but the claim is not supported by a reliable source. These are rare, but must be deleted immediately.
  • Undue weight: The article gives undue weight to a single documented incident such as doping, with perhaps one sentence of a two-sentence article discussing the incident. The editor may consider toning down or even dropping the incident description and/or expanding the rest of the article to give more balance. This particularly applies to people who are relatively unknown.
  • Unsourced information: " ... (born February 14, 1967 in Cheyenne, United States) ... " If the source does not give the birth date and/or birth place, drop it. Some articles contain several paragraphs of plausible but unsourced information added to the original stub. Drop them. A BLP should only contain information supported by reliable sources.
  • Poorly sourced information: Blog sites, celebrity gossip sites and so on are not valid sources. Drop any material supported by sources like these.
  • Incorrect information: The article disagrees with the source, perhaps due to a transcription error. Correct the article to match the source.
  • Incorrect links. Nobody was born in Cheyenne, United States. Fix the link.
  • Original research: "is a cyclist" or "is a former cyclist". We have no way of telling the subject is still active as a cyclist – they may have retired yesterday. But if the source does not say they have retired, it is wrong to say "is a former cyclist". They may be proudly competing in the Masters 70+ class. Just say what they did: "competed as a cyclist in the 1967 Tour de France".
  • Notability: Whereas many articles are notable per WP:SPORTS (for example, every participant in the Olympics is notable), some are not. These should be notable per WP:GNG; check that the athletes are described in reliable sources, and, ideally, add these sources to the draft before moving back to the main space.

Bottom line is that although many of the SvG stubs are entirely accurate, many contain errors. All must be carefully checked to ensure the facts agree with reliable sources. As stated in Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons, "Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. ... We must get the article right."

Deletion versus salvage

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  • Articles must be deleted fast if they contain unfounded or poorly sourced libel, regardless of the notability of the subject. Add {{Db-g10}} to the top of the article.
  • Articles should be flagged if they do not seem to meet the notability criteria in Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline or Wikipedia:Notability (sports). Add {{Notability|Sport}} to the top of the draft article. This tells other reviewers it may not be worth spending much time trying to salvage the article.
  • Consider Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Subjects notable only for one event. If an athlete is technically notable according to Wikipedia:Notability (sports), but very little information is available or is likely to become available in the future, and all the information in the stub is in the article on the event, you may:
    • Blank the article and replace by #redirect [[article on the event]]
    • Move the article to mainspace:
  • In all other cases, where the article does not contain an unfounded libel and the subject is notable, preferably for more than one event,
    • Carefully compare the article to the reliable source(s) and remove any original research, unsourced or poorly sourced information. Do not assume good faith if you cannot access a "source". It may not mention the subject at all.
    • Try to correct undue weight, where a single event dominates the article
    • Flesh out the article with information from other reliable sources if you have time
    • Remember to check the infobox and categories to make sure they agree with the text
    • Reactivate categories by removing the colon after the square brackets. For example, change [[:Category:Living people]] to [[Category:Living people]]
    • Move the article to mainspace
      1. Click the "Move" tab at the top of the page
      2. In the window that opens, under "Move page ... New title:" you will see "Draft". Change it to "(Article)"
      3. Enter a reason like "All statements checked"
      4. Click on "Move Page"
    • There is no need to update any lists after you have moved an article back.

Audit

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The results will be audited after a few weeks. This approach will be considered to have failed if a significant percentage of the articles that have been moved to main space turn out to still contain BLP violations and/or to contain information that is not confirmed by a citation to a reliable source. We will then revert to the letter of the close at the ANI discussion. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion:

  • Editors whose restorations to mainspace were problematic will be banned from participating
  • Other editors will be invited to move articles they want to save from main space or draft space to their user space
  • After the bulk deletion, these editors may fix the saved user space articles and move them to main space.

See User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Audit notes for more detail.

Lists

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The table that follow gives, in each cell

  1. A list of articles of a given type that have been recovered to mainspace
  2. A count of the total number of articles of this type
  3. A list of all the articles of this type in draft space, with redlinks for recovered articles
Category Any Gender Female Male
All Mainspace complete list
16,096 results
Draft complete list
Mainspace women
8,894 results)
Draft women
Mainspace men
7,126 results
Draft men
Cyclists Mainspace cyclists
1,005 total
Draft cyclists
Mainspace female cyclists
576 results
Draft female cyclists
Mainspace male cyclists
426 results
Draft male cyclists
Olympic competitors Mainspace olympic competitors
2,073 results
Draft Olympic competitors
Mainspace female Olympic competitors
1,002 results
Draft female Olympic competitors
Mainspace male Olympic competitors
1,066 results
Draft male Olympic competitors
Olympic cyclists Mainspace olympic cyclists
152 results
Draft Olympic cyclists  Done
Mainspace female Olympic cyclists
101 results
Draft female Olympic cyclists  Done
Mainspace male Olympic cyclists
51 results
Draft male Olympic cyclists  Done
Archers Mainspace archers
676 results
Draft archers
Athletics Mainspace competitors in athletics
263 results
Draft competitors in athletics
Footballers Mainspace footballers
2,264 results
Draft footballers
Mainspace female footballers
1,922 results
Draft female footballers
Mainspace male footballers
342 results
Draft male footballers
Gymnasts Mainspace gymnasts
3,168 results
Draft gymnasts
Mainspace female gymnasts
2,009 results
User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Female gymnasts
Mainspace male gymnasts
1,156 results
Draft male gymnasts
Racewalkers Mainspace racewalkers
56 results
Draft racewalkers  Done
Runners Mainspace runners
126 results
Draft runners  Done
Swimmers Mainspace swimmers
10 results
User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Swimmers
Volleyball players Mainspace volleyball players
4,379 results
Draft volleyball players
Mainspace female volleyball players
2,154 results
Draft female volleyball players
Mainspace male volleyball players
2,225 results
Draft male volleyball players
Water polo players Mainspace water polo players
1,070 results
Draft water polo players
Weightlifters Mainspace weightlifters
3,039 results
Draft weighlifters
Mainspace female weightlifters
1,207 results
Draft female weightlifters
Mainspace male weightlifters
1,762 results
Draft male weightlifters

Results

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  1. Cisiane Lopes
  2. Esther Deden
  3. Kathleen Weiß
  4. Louisa Lippmann
  5. Jennifer Geerties
  6. Eva Lutz
  7. Aafke Eshuis
  8. Rigard van Klooster
  9. Astrid Schop
  10. Cora Westland
  11. Lada Kozlíková
  12. Verena Jooß
  13. Sanne van Kerkhof
  14. Matthijs Büchli
  15. Richard Rozendaal
  16. Eszter Tomaskovics
  17. Patricia del Soto
  18. Alla Jakovleva - one link was dead, all the info was correct, moved to the main space--Ymblanter (talk) 11:14, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
  19. Ágnes Valkai
  20. Erzsébet Valkai
  21. Ioanna Stamatopoulou
  22. Maria Sora
  23. Virginia Niarchakou
  24. Evi Tetzalidou
  25. Michaela Kalogerakou
  26. Silia Logotheti
  27. Nikoleta Eleftheriadou
  28. Vasiliki Plevritou
  29. Tamás Dala
  30. Tihomil Vranješ
  31. Hanna Solovey - info was correct, one ref to a blog removed--Ymblanter (talk) 20:57, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
  32. Russ Prior
  33. Petra Grimbergen
  34. Draft:Altangereliin Enkhtuyaa - the content is not confirmed by the source; I was not able to find sources confirming notability. Needs to be deleted.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:22, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
  35. Dobromira Danailova
  36. Stelio DeRocco - was moved out of process to the article space, so that I found it in the NPP queue and had to look for sources myself as most of the article was not sourced.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
  37. Yona Knight-Wisdom
  38. Adriana Martin (archer)- lots of cleanup needed, and moved to sourced name
  39. Gheraldine Quijada- removed some unsourced
  40. Michelle Finn (athlete)- removed lots of unsourced, and move to correct disambiguated name
  41. Bébéy Beyene- added sourcing from not dead links
  42. Lin Li (volleyball)- added more sourcing
  43. Veronika Sharametsyeva - all material was sourced and accurate. Added a little info but it's still a stub. Survived an AfD on notability grounds recently, though, so it's definitely notable. Smartyllama (talk) 17:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
  44. ‎Konstantinos Galanidis
  45. ‎Konstantinos Tsalkanis
  46. Ilektra Psouni
  47. ‎Blanca Gil Sorli
  48. ‎Assel Jakayeva
  49. ‎Christina Kotsia
  50. ‎Rodolfo Sánchez
  51. Liberman Agámez
  52. ‎‎Jayson Jablonsky
  53. ‎Carson Clark
  54. ‎Andy Rojas
  55. ‎Jorge Elgueta
  56. Krasimir Gaydarski
  57. Ivaylo Gavrilov
  58. Nikolay Jeliazkov
  59. Lyudmil Naydenov
  60. Dimo Tonev
  61. Nayden Naydenov
  62. Sotiris Amarianakis
  63. Andreas Andreadis
  64. Apostolos Armenakis
  65. Theodoros Bozidis
  66. Theodoros Chatziantoniou
  67. Konstantinos Christofidelis
  68. Christos Dimitrakopoulos
  69. Dmytro Filippov
  70. Marios Giourdas
  71. Gerasimos Kanellos
  72. Theoklitos Karipidis
  73. Menelaos Kokkinakis
  74. Vasileios Kournetas
  75. Chrysanthos Kyriazis
  76. Athanasios Maroulis
  77. Thanassis Moustakidis
  78. Georgios Ntrakovits
  79. Achilleas Papadimitriou
  80. Georgios Papazoglou
  81. Panagiotis Pelekoudas
  82. Georgios Petreas
  83. Konstantinos Prousalis
  84. Nikolaos Roumeliotis
  85. Nikolaos Smaragdis
  86. Georgios Stefanou
  87. Konstantinos Stivachtis
  88. Ioannis Takouridis
  89. Konstantinos Tambouratzis
  90. Andreas Theodoridis
  91. Sotirios Tsergas
  92. Antonios Tsakiropoulos
  93. Maria Chatzinikolaou
  94. Vaia Dirva
  95. Eleni Kiosi
  96. Maria Plagiannakou
  97. Ioanna Vlachou
  98. Nadzeya Malasai
  99. Aneta Germanova
  100. Radosveta Teneva
  101. Gabriela Tsvetanova
  102. Biljana Gligorović
  103. Michaela Hasalíková
  104. Lucie Mühlsteinová
  105. Tatiana Artmenko
  106. Manuela Secolo
  107. Aleksandra Crnčević
  108. Ivana Bramborová
  109. Martina Noseková
  110. Giulia Emmolo
  111. Roberta Bianconi
  112. Stefanos Galanopoulos
  113. Konstantinos Mourikis
  114. Angelos Vlachopoulos
  115. Kyriakos Pontikeas
  116. Christodoulos Kolomvos
  117. Georgios Dervisis
  118. Konstantinos Genidounias
  119. Eleni Xenaki
  120. Konstantinos Gouvis
  121. Konstantinos Flegkas
  122. Eleni Kouvdou
  123. Gabriella Szűcs (water polo)
  124. Antonio Petković
  125. Alkistis Benekou
  126. Adamantia Doureka
  127. Eleni Goula
  128. Christina Tsoukala
  129. Eleni Kouvdou. I checked all articles from 16 to 30 (except 18) and from 44 to 129. I removed unsouced information and dead links, I did extensive cleanup and various corrections, I added reliable sourcing. All material is sourced and accurate and the articles' notability is confirmed. All articles are triple-checked. Gtrbolivar (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
  130. Draft:Reem Yusuf Al Hashmi - sources do not verify anything. Nominated for deletion.
  131. Draft:Reem Yousif Al Hashmi - probably same person as above, same sources used, albeit a different unverified DoB. Nominated for deletion.
  132. Draft:Lorraine Hunt (footballer) - source verifies none of the article. She doesn't appear to meet WP:NFOOTY. Nominated for deletion.
  133. Lorraine Hanson - rewritten and sourced
  134. Rebecca Kalu- cleaned up
  135. Sahar Zaman (footballer) - rewritten
  136. Ryan Roberts (gymnast)
  137. Dimitrios Kafatos - cleaned up, participated in Olympics